Will Virginia start minting its own currency? It’s an idea worth considering, according to the state’s House of Delegates.

The lower chamber passed a bill Monday to study the possibility. The legislation, proposed by Manassas Republican Del. Robert Marshall, would create a new joint subcommittee made up of lawmakers, plus two outside experts, to “study the feasibility of a metallic-based monetary unit.”

The committee could spend up to $17,440 and would present its recommendations before the legislative session starts in 2014. Translation: Ten people would advise Virginia on whether to start making its own currency on a gold or silver standard.

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"No state shall enter into any treaty, alliance, or confederation; grant letters of marque and reprisal; coin money; emit bills of credit; make anything but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts; pass any bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law impairing the obligation of contracts, or grant any title of nobility."

And just FYI I don't live in a bunker that's just a reflection of the propaganda and indoctrination from all the Establishment Koolaid you have deposited on your cranium where your brain once long ago used to be...

Whoa whoa, if the states secede, as Rick Perry is threatening to, the red states drain on the economy, which is kept afloat by the blue states, will continue to prosper for about 10 minutes. China right? How about looking at the money going to the cretin bible belt.

Rick Perry has already reneged on his secession comments. He was pandering to the RWNJs during the GOP primary. Once he went back to being governor, he announced secession was off the table. He knows Texas would become a third world country overrun by Mexico without the largesse and protection of the federal government.

No, that would create a mis-match in the value-of-currency, eventually . . . Some folks in Kansas would probably want to argue that their Dollar is far more VALUED in their own State than New York's . . . Particularly if you are asking some Ag-Retailer for some Corn-Seed to plant their crops.

"No state shall enter into any treaty, alliance, or confederation; grant letters of marque and reprisal; coin money; emit bills of credit; make anything but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts; pass any bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law impairing the obligation of contracts, or grant any title of nobility."